As I have said before I have two WAPs that advertise the same SID. If you connect to the wrong one, you will get poor results, even though the menu bar shows full signalL it lies. You've said that before. But, since I have literally no control about which one to join, that's never been helpful; my ...

Considering that literally nothing has changed in my setup since the last time we did this, hard for me to understand what I could change to get a different result. My impression is that the only people who had trouble hearing me were in Newton; the Pittsburgh people seemed to understand as well as ...

(Please stop using "begs the question" - a type of logical fallacy - to mean "leads to the question". Thank you. :) ) If you can find somebody who wants to buy your "stuff", you can sell it to them for a mutually agreed on price, which may or may not be "book value...

I used Emacs. Which is to say, I directly authored HTML. :) I had a "template", so to speak, which was a file with all my normal tables with an empty row in each, and I duplicated and filled in rows for each item. I manually inserted each row in the numerically appropriate (by value) place...

If feel that the current party in your current world is being underserved in treasure by my presence, I will withdraw. Odd response. I said that the party will get whatever treasure the module provides. I don't see what that has to do with "your presence". As Seston said (or implied), in ...

People have their own visions of what their characters want and what they want for their characters. We should be allowed to make our own choices - even if they are dumb choices in the eyes of the DM or other players. Talon, the (several) times I planted treasure hoards that had "one appropria...

II definitely agree that the parties need some mechanism for division and an accurate ledger. I also confess that tracking your treasure isn't something I see as typically my responsibility. Personal preference there, but I do feel the party needs to track their inventory. When I was a player, I wa...

(I edited the actual player names in previous notes.) As a DM, I do not dictate how parties decide to divide treasure. It's simply not my call. When the Tarrastra party decided to pool treasure and "assign" items, with Carric keeping the gold, I shrugged. I did make several attempts to giv...

Is here . Over the Edge was a modern-era RPG set on the island of Al Amarja. It was published last century by Atlas Games - Jonathon Tweet's company - which also did Ars Magica. I think I have everything published for both of those games. They were both really well done. And now, Atlas Games (which ...

Belle: watching the procession from the Church. At midnight the spirits on dead adventurers go up the hill to the castle. Belle: Priest's son is a Spawn of a Vampire. Has been living under floorboards without eating. Belle: The fog or mist is getting thicker and thicker outside. Belle: No more spiri...

Belle: okay Belle: I take the note Belle: and put rope away in backpack Belle: and sit out on watch Belle: Belle wakes next two who wake next two Belle: i can't hear Belle: only static Belle: should I reconnect Belle: may I call Belle: type anything you want to say Belle: don't have number handt Bel...

"DM intervention" means "DM screwup". I should have fully absorbed that if you were in the company of the Vistani, you had a free pass until you reached Madame Eva's camp. Now, had you refused the offer to join with them, The Mists would have risen soon enough and you'd still be ...

Yeah, this is what I get for not turning on my laptop since last June. Since then, both Skype and Dropbox have declared that I am obsolete. I'll try to do an OS upgrade (this weekend?) such that I can run both of those programs. If not, it'll probably be six months before I can justify upgrading my ...

P.S. I came home early this evening and went to try to start my car (for the first time in a month; I've been driving Katie's Prius, since she is in Kuwait) to make sure I could drive it to be inspected tomorrow - and the battery was dead. AAA comes out, jumps the car, says the battery is charging, ...

Cool. I'm inclined to say "yes" for your "philosopher artist" background. We are, certainly, using backgrounds, and there is no reason we can't make custom backgrounds that are of comparable benefit to existing backgrounds. We'll run with this, with the caveat that I may want to ...

I'd prefer that you have your character planned, if not completely finished, before the first game. That probably means "rolling" and selecting backgrounds and proficiencies and such. And a personality. And hand-painting a character portrait in watercolors. :D Did we use a 27 point buy for...

Do we need to know each other n Ravenloft or all be from the same world? I confess that my first inclination is to scratch and old each by playing someone from Taladas. Scratch and old? Taladas? You are not from Ravenloft. I am tempted to say you are all from the same town in Tarrastra. If you are ...

Here's a Kickstarter campaign that I like. I backed their previous one and got all three decks of NPC cards and the companion app, which is pretty darn cool, and am a backer for this one, too. They're making a 4th deck and have some nifty stretch goals. I am confident that they'll fund the basic cam...

Horror/cats role playing game In Cats of Catthulhu, players take on the roles of a variety of ordinary-seeming cats fighting conspiracies of cosmic chaos. Mighty spirits such as Snarlyathotep, slimy Phatphroggua, and Hastpurr of the Yellow Eye inspire their cultists to destroy civilization-but that'...

I did not feel like I had any real options in the last game. I felt totally unempowered to help my fellows and the townspeople. I'm sorry your imagination wasn't wide enough. I can't remember any D&D episode where we waltzed into a situation and Made Things Right immediately. This seems exactly...

I completely missed all the "was supposed to do" aspect of the scenario you claim was present. In fact, I would be astonished if there is a single predetermined path. I'm curious: do you believe that in D&D adventures you've participated in that you "were supposed to" follow ...

This was fun! The whole constantly changing dice pool thing is brand new and will take a lot of learning before we can use them as cleverly as the examples in the book (Mal's fight with Atherton in Shindig, for example). I really like the story-based emphasis of the game. Don't worry about "hit...

Google suggests: <embed src="file_name.pdf" width="800px" height="2100px" /> I'll try that when I am at home and can upload web pages - as well as determine the correct page sizes. I went into Chrome's developer tools/page editor and without specifying such, it gives yo...